Carotid Artery Disease and Stroke Oxygenated blood is carried from the heart to the face and brain by the carotid arteries one on each side of the neck. The carotid arteries (common) bifurcate and become the internal carotid artery (ICA) and the external carotid artery (ECA). Blood supply to the brain is mainly through the internal carotid artery and the vertebral arteries (1). Blood flow to the brain is affected by carotid artery disease. Carotid artery disease is the narrowing (stenosis) or
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KEY PRINCIPLES OF BODY MECHANICS AND TRANSFERS Lisa Taipalus PT Regional Stroke Best Practice Consultant Northeastern Ontario Stroke Network www.neostrokestrategy.com OUTLINE Provide you with some tools and options to use with your stroke survivors Review principles of body mechanics Review good practices for transfers Positioning the stroke survivor Bed Mobility Repositioning Transfers Opportunity to problem solve some issues you may have BIOMECHANICS Body movements and the forces that
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Grunge Rubber Stamp Effect Step 1: Open up a stock image in Photoshop of any size and/or format. The best results for this tutorial usually involve large photographic images with effective color separation. Since the overall grunge effect will come out of this source image‚ it is best to select a photo with lots of vertical lines and straight edges going off at different angles. Rounded objects (especially ’natural’ objects) do not work very well. From personal experience I can say that construction-yard
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Case Study: CVA Angel Hernandez Keiser University Ms. Gutierrez CVA Cerebrovascular accident is well known as a stroke and affects around 800‚000 people every year (Mclntosh‚ 2016). There are three types of strokes: ischemic‚ hemorrhagic and transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) (Mclntosh‚ 2016). Ischemic stroke is the most prevailing type of strokes with an 85 percent average rate (Mclntosh‚ 2016). It is cause by the reduction of blood flow‚ because of a narrowed or blocked artery in the brain (Mclntosh
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CEREBRAL VASCULAR ACCIDENT (CVA) A stroke‚ sometimes referred to as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA)‚ is the rapid loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of blood flow) caused by blockage (thrombosis‚ arterial embolism)‚ or a hemorrhage. Risk factors for stroke include old age‚ high blood pressure‚ previous stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA)‚ diabetes‚ high cholesterol‚ tobacco smoking
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breaststroke is the oldest known swimming stroke and is one of four strokes used in competitive swimming. This stroke is also very popular in leisure swimming because the head can be held up‚ making vision and breathing easy and because the swimmer can rest between strokes if needed. Swimmers can also use the breaststroke in survival swimming and in lifesaving situations. Since the breaststroke has many uses and is easy to learn‚ it is one of the best strokes to teach a beginning swimmer. When
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the blood moves‚ it pushes against the sides of the blood vessels. The strength of this pushing is your blood pressure. If the blood pressure is too high‚ it puts extra strain on your arteries (and your heart) and this may lead to heart attacks and strokes. Having high blood pressure (hypertension) is not usually something that you feel or notice. It does not tend to produce obvious signs or symptoms. The only way to know what your blood pressure is‚ is to have it measured. Blood pressure is measured
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Ch. 56-61 (cont) Head Injury -trauma to head‚ including chg in LOC -traumatic brain injury= incr potential for poor outcome -immediately after‚ 2h after‚ 3 wk after‚ death common -*abnormal motor reflex‚ alt eye mvmt‚ hypotension= hypoxia= decr O2 in brain‚ incr ICP greater than 20 GCS measures speech‚ eye‚ motor -if greater than 8= 90% chance recov -if less than 8= 30-70% chance recov Scalp lac- most common type‚ profuse bld‚ complication is infx -skull fx- linear‚ depressed‚ simple
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forerunners of stroke. Approximately 10% of patients diagnosed as having a TIA have a stroke in the 90 days following the TIA diagnosis‚ with half of them having a stroke within 2 days of the TIA. TIAs are short-lived episodes of acute‚ focal‚ nonconvulsive neurologic dysfunction presumably caused by reversible ischemia to an area of the retina or brain. Onset of symptoms is sudden and often unprovoked‚ reaching maximum intensity almost immediately. Completed Stroke A completed stroke is the term
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Anna Garcia was a 40 year old woman who mysteriously died on August of 2015. Anna Garcia died because of a stroke caused by diabetes. Evidence of a stroke include the lens of the right eye appearing cloudy‚ blood vessels in boths eyes are swollen‚ abnormal blood vessels present on left retina‚ vision most likely compromised‚ and mild ischemia in several regions of the brain. Evidence of this stroke being diabetic is many problems found in the autopsy are related to diabetes. These include high blood
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